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What pension? I don’t think that’s a common US benefit. https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/usbenefits
401K I think is what we consider to be retirement funding.
A giant corporation buys a Silicon Valley company, the result is generally carnage. The old-boy marketing-driven process-heavy big company will roll out decisions like a bowling ball careening across a cafeteria, knocking over tables and chairs and sending people running for cover. Since big companies are driven by managers not engineers, and the managers are always, always from the bigger company, the decisions are…
I don't know what you mean by 'giant corporation' and 'Silicon Valley company' - do you think these groups are distinct?
RedHat isn't a 'Silicon Valley company' as far as I know. It's from the east coast - North Carolina isn't it? The Carolinas seem as far as you can get from Silicon Valley, culturally and geographically.
And many Silicon Valley companies are traditional giant corporations - Oracle, Intel, etc.
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> A giant corporation buys a Silicon Valley company Redhat is not a Silicon Valley company.
I think they're referring to "Silicon Valley" in the cultural sense, not the geographic one.
Oracle is a traditional Silicon Valley company. But presumably that's not what they mean either?
"Error establishing a database connection" I looks like the site may have been hugged to death. Anyone have a mirror?
not just IBM, but the link to the microsoft layoffs is kind of mind blowing: http://techrights.org/2020/08/02/microsoft-layoffs-secrecy/ >“Microsoft rarely, if ever, allows anyone working there to reach 55 and have their pension become vested.” >“Microsoft was twice as likely to lay you off if you were over 40.” >“Cortana is an analytics and telemetry app that data mines people while pretending to be a digital assist…
What pension? I don’t think that’s a common US benefit. https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/usbenefits
Financial services companies play the same game - bonuses get paid first couple months of the year so around Christmas they cut as many people as they can. Real jerk move but not as bad as working someplace thirty years and then losing your retirement three months before.
not just IBM, but the link to the microsoft layoffs is kind of mind blowing: http://techrights.org/2020/08/02/microsoft-layoffs-secrecy/ >“Microsoft rarely, if ever, allows anyone working there to reach 55 and have their pension become vested.” >“Microsoft was twice as likely to lay you off if you were over 40.” >“Cortana is an analytics and telemetry app that data mines people while pretending to be a digital assist…
What pension? I don’t think that’s a common US benefit. https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/usbenefits
A giant corporation buys a Silicon Valley company, the result is generally carnage. The old-boy marketing-driven process-heavy big company will roll out decisions like a bowling ball careening across a cafeteria, knocking over tables and chairs and sending people running for cover. Since big companies are driven by managers not engineers, and the managers are always, always from the bigger company, the decisions are…
> A giant corporation buys a Silicon Valley company I don't know what you mean by 'giant corporation' and 'Silicon Valley company' - do you think these groups are distinct? RedHat isn't a 'Silicon Valley company' as far as I know. It's from the east coast - North Carolina isn't it? The Carolinas seem as far as you can get from Silicon Valley, culturally and geographically. And many Silicon Valley companies are tradit…
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> A giant corporation buys a Silicon Valley company Redhat is not a Silicon Valley company.
I think they're referring to "Silicon Valley" in the cultural sense, not the geographic one.
and IBM... hmmm...